Why I’m Hosting The Breakdown | David Canellis | The Breakdown

Nothing said on the breakdown is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are opinions, not financial advice. Hosts and guests may hold positions in the company's funds or projects discussed. Welcome everybody to the breakdown. I'm your host, David Canales. This episode is going to be a little bit different. We have now rounded out season zero, what we're calling season zero of the new format of the breakdown. And we're taking a few weeks break in between seasons while we prepare content to roll out for season one. And I hope that you're enjoying the content so far. But I wanted to take this opportunity to really introduce myself to you because I imagine if you have been a listener of the breakdown, for a while now, you would have grown accustomed to hearing NLW and understanding how he thinks about crypto and macro and Bitcoin in the world. So I really wanted to give an opportunity to understand who I am and why I am even hosting the breakdown in the first place at all all of a sudden. So this is you're going to be an audio only episode, but we are going to continue with the video episodes throughout the break as well before we roll out the next season. We should be at the April, but, TBD on that. So who am I? Who is who is Dave Canales? So, I mean, I think maybe similarly to to many of you, I think I bought my first Bitcoin in in mid twenty seventeen just before the big ERC twenty Ethereum ICO bull run, towards the end of that year and the 2018. But, I mean, I stumbled across Bitcoin through the Bitcoin subreddit, basically. And, you know, obviously, I was very attracted to Bitcoin for its, you know, cypherpunk energy and its and its commitment to open source money and But what what really hooked me in the beginning was actually trading shit coins, as unfortunate as they pay that as that might be. I think my strategy in the beginning was to pull up for you know, I would check Twitter for four different coins that a lot of people were talking about that day, and then I would pull up four different Binance charts on one screen and swing trade between those four coins all day. And I think this was even before Binance had stop loss orders or or anything like that. It was really when they first launched. So, that kind of hooked me in the very beginning, and I kind of got absorbed into into trading, very quickly for for pretty much the entirety of that bull run. And once one one time in particular, I remember, you know, like, I I I'm I'm I'm Australian, so I would I would trade on these smaller Australian exchanges. And I think at …